Word: scholares
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...large step from outstanding scholar of religion to leading raconteur of shaggy dog stories is bridged somewhat by this interest in the mystery. It is still, a little surprising, however, to hear him conclude in his thick British accent: "And the spinster said, 'Oh, no, sir, my dog wasn't nearly as shaggy as that.'" A few words of the punch line may be lost when Nock laughs--a hearty blast followed by a creaky chuckle...
...create an atmosphere here," says Hans, "whose friendliness will remind a foreign scholar of his homeland--a sort of "home away from home"--but sufficiently different to challenge him with the habits and thinking of other lands and nations." The Center's genial leisure fosters such an ideal. Students from hostile nations resolve their problems over the chessboard; Englishmen and Egyptians, over a pot of tea, discuss the Suez Canal bloodlessly. Hans and Eleanor feel that such intimate chats help build foundations for permanent friendship and understanding...
Later forced back to the hills, Lee became the No. 1 guerrilla in South Korea. Yet he himself never fired a shot. A scholar and ascetic, he studied three hours before breakfast, left his rice bowl to read his books until noon. From lunch until 3 p.m., he listened to reports, and studied. In the evenings he gave orders for the sabotage of U.S. convoys and studied again until precisely 8 p.m., when he lay down to sleep...
...Baker Scholarships, the school's highest scholastic prizes, are awarded to the top five percent of each class on the basis of first year work. Every scholar gets a pin, and the awards carry a financial value if a student needs assistance...
Though his surname seems to have historic overtones, Henri Navarre was born of solid bourgeois stock at Villefranche de Rouergue, in southwestern France. His father, a polished, urbane scholar, was a professor of Greek at Toulouse University, but his son set out early on a military career, served on the front in 1916, and with the Americans at Chateau-Thierry in 1918 (retaining from that an unwavering admiration for U.S. troops). He graduated from Saint-Cyr in 1918, later went back for further studies...